We’re looking for a Program Manager to help operationalize and scale GenAI-enabled content production across multiple brands. This contractor role will bring structure, visibility, and momentum to a fast-moving, cross-functional environment by coordinating workstreams, facilitating collaboration, and supporting consistent execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily standups, working sessions, planning meetings, and retrospectives to keep teams aligned and moving forward.
• Build and maintain an integrated program plan that captures milestones, sequencing, dependencies, decisions, and risks.
• Coordinate across creative, marketing, technology, operations, and enablement partners to support shared objectives and clear communication.
• Track progress across multiple workstreams and surface blockers, gaps, and issues that need attention.
• Support program governance by organizing status updates, action items, and cross-functional reviews.
• Help define operating structure for a multi-brand workflow and document roles, responsibilities, and next steps.
• Identify training and enablement needs as processes and workflows scale.
• Contribute to process improvement by documenting lessons learned and opportunities for continued optimization.

Skills

• 6+ years of experience in program management, project management, creative operations, marketing operations, product operations, or a related field.
• Proven experience managing complex programs with multiple teams, stakeholders, workflows, and dependencies.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead standups, planning sessions, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Experience developing and maintaining program plans, roadmaps, milestone trackers, risk logs, and status reporting.
• Ability to translate program goals into actionable workstreams, clear ownership, and measurable progress.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Confidence working independently and proactively identifying next steps.
• Experience using project and workflow tools such as Workfront, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Airtable, or similar platforms.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting GenAI, AI-enabled content production, creative automation, or emerging technology initiatives.
• Familiarity with creative development, content production, asset review, and approval workflows.
• Experience helping scale a pilot, minimum viable process, or new capability across multiple brands or teams.
• Background in improving end-to-end workflows for larger-scale operations.
• Experience with change enablement, adoption planning, training needs assessment, or learning resource development.
• Experience in a large, matrixed organization.
• Ability to develop playbooks, process documentation, stakeholder communications, and presentations.
• Interest in how AI can be applied in creative and content workflows.

Horizontal is committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and equity is a core principle of how we work. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply and believe that inclusive teams help drive better outcomes.

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